Damn you sensible Canadian bastards! We need you in the EU ASAP!!

Might not ruin it but it’s still a fire hazard

Oh damn! Thanks for posting (and creating the community?). I’ve “only started” and read Mistborn 1-3, Way of Kings and am just wrapping up Words of radiance. I’ve checked out some reading order recommendations but am unsure how much of the auxiliary content I want to read since I’m mainly interested by the characters and what’s happening on Roshar right now. Thoughts? (lol)

Thank you! I hate it but that’s why I feel compelled to join the herd, the number of times I’ve seen people bring on huge duffels or hiker bags large enough to require thumping the bucket closed is too goddamn high

Yeah, I think it’s a tad unnecessary. I dislike serving repeats on the feed.

I’ve found myself in similar situations. However I haven’t taken full three weeks off; I think my longest has been about 10 days.

I’ve always relished getting back to it with a clear mind and often a well thought out plan and it feels like the features flow faster from the fingertips.

Never fight taking a bit of time off, it grants perspective and lets you decompress, don’t think that can ever be a bad thing (given there’s nothing you really need to be doing in that time to make sure you’ve got a steady income)

“…The researchers did not yet test this in people. They went straight to the cells that line your brain’s blood vessels…”

Oh, well that’s on me for only reading the headline then (and assuming the worst from corpos at every step).

Yeah no gotcha, I’ve known it to work similarly. Also, didn’t mean it as an attack on you per se (unless you wrote the headline I guess).

The situation seems to me to be that companies obviously assume (I’d guess rightly) that a huge majority of people don’t keep these itemised receipts in order to claim the tax from these minuscule transactions themselves, thus enabling the company to get the tax break.

Loool, what a bootlicker BS headline then! Thank you for your time to tell us.

Unintentionally accurate if you’ve ever tried meditation!

Is that what that is? To keep liches out? Can’t find any references apart from Warhammer

Not my area of expertise but density is the wrong concept to be looking into remaining equal, its pressure. The amount of helium gas you pump in to the balloon creates a certain outward pressure that’s at equilibrium with outside air pressure, that’s why it doesn’t collapse (if you were to place the balloon in a vacuum then it would expand and probably burst, that’s usually what happens when a child loses one and it escapes higher up in the atmosphere to lower pressures)

The atmospheric pressure simply isn’t strong enough to overcome the outward pressure.

Bonus point: density is actually the reason why a helium balloon floats, its less dense than air so it wants to float up. Much like a rubber duck or ice cube in water.

I mean obviously not everything everyone is going to talk about is going to be scientifically accurate. Those two examples give big “Uhm ahcktualllly” energy as they’re simply helpful to explain simple patterns because everyone knows what you mean by them.

Better examples (in my mind) would be real woo-woo shit like alt medicine or energy crystals.

Lol what, who’s that referencing?

The what! That’s so cool, thanks for sharing!

Dudes obviously magic tho, summoning a strong enough concentrated beam of light inside with a futuristic lens design of unknown origin for the time period!

1. Please sir may I have some more pixels?
2. Yup Climate Change should be the number one priority for every country on the planet!
3. AGI is a way different idea than the LLMs we have today and I don’t think we should discard it too haphazardly.

The threat stemming from AGI doesn’t rely on linearly scaling intelligence, just imagine one human that can think faster than you by the same margin that a computer can do pretty much anything faster than you + it’s directly connected to the internet. As long as one grants the assumption of speed and superior programming skills, I believe one must acknowledge that a certain level of risk arises.

Also you don’t need to ascribe it any anthropomorphic intentions or even consciousness. The argument stands that if what it is going to do, be it by an errant instruction/misunderstanding or mischief, is not what a morally sane person would consider to be in our best interests, how are we going to stop it from performing said undesirable task if it’s as smart/smarter, faster and better at programming and networking than us?

My brother in Christ, have you heard about our lord and saviour the Scientific Method and the proliferation of cross-domain ideas? How do you imagine the li-ion batteries came about as the go-to energy storage solution? Incremental improvements of ideas would be my guess, ideas have to start somewhere and of course they’re going to be hyperbolic since researchers are both excited and have to draw attention to their ideas.

I sympathise with your point but the alternative is little to no research into different battery technologies because close to nothing will ever emerge as a competitive day-one drop-in replacement, but some ideas may prove exciting to others who understand the value and they might push the ball further towards realistic alternatives.

Phew, didn’t see the community and thought you had roally violated a piece of seafood